8 – The number of titles Self has won at Chandler Seton Catholic after Seton’s 49-40 victory over Cave Creek Cactus Shadows on Monday in the Division II girls state basketball championship game.

2 – The number of titles she needs to become the most accomplished high school basketball coach in Arizona history. Former Thatcher boys coach Paul Nelson won nine titles.

46 – Self’s age, and we’re mentioning that only because it leads into our second measurement of Self as a coach: Where in the record books she’ll wind up when she finally retires.

“She’s going to eventually break all the records,” said longtime Gilbert Highland coach Miner Webster, who is closing in on 800 victories. “She could get well over 1,000 wins. If she wants to hang in there and keep doing it it will be really, really tough for anybody to touch her.”

“My husband always jokes around, telling me, ‘You’re going to go for 1,000 wins, ’” Self said. “I mean, it’s kind of weird when someone says to you you’ve been coaching for 24 years and then you think about it. It’s like, ‘How did I get here?’ It went really fast so I don’t think about the longevity of it. But I’m really one of the old-timers at this point. I’ve been around for a long time.”

And she’s done it all at one school. Self took the Seton job after her playing career ended at Arizona State. She was told Seton was a volleyball school and would never be a basketball power. It took Self three years to get Seton to a title game. In the last 21 years Seton has played in the state championship game 12 times.

“I think she’s one of the best coaches in the state,” Webster said.

Few coaches stay at one school forever but Self might be the exception. She and Seton have grown up together. She got married and had four kids, 14-year-old triplets and her oldest, who will be 16 in May. She loves what Seton is, a small Catholic school that has managed to retain its Mayberry feel even as it’s gotten bigger.

“It’s a very special community,” Self said. “It has this very small-town feel about it and everybody knows everybody, everybody cares for one another … it’s a small community in this big urban atmosphere. It’s kind of neat.”

Self is so content that she flatly said, “I will not coach anywhere else.”

Seton Catholic Prep Kendall Krick battles to the basket against Cactus Shadows during the Division II girls championship game in Glendale, Ariz., on Monday, February 29, 2016.(Photo: Rob Schumacher/azcentral sports)

She didn’t say it once. She said it twice.

If Self is thankful for Seton imagine how fortunate Seton feels to have a lifetime contract with arguably the best coach in the state, regardless of class, gender or sport. Self’s acumen was on display again Monday. Cactus Shadows took a 23-20 lead in large part because it imposed its physicality on Seton.

As Cactus Shadows came back onto the floor for the second half Self kept her team inside the locker room and not-so-gently reminded them that they needed to be tougher.

“We were pretty hot as a coaching staff over the level of intensity we had in the first half,” Self said. “I told them we were being soft and we were being weak with the ball and we weren’t matching their level of intensity.”

Message received – “her players will play their hearts out for her,” Webster said – Seton went on about its business of winning its fifth title in seven years.

Might as well make it six of eight: Seton returns its entire starting lineup next season.

After that? Well, Self’s kids will be off to college soon, giving her more time to focus on coaching.

“Then I’ll get serious about it,” she said with a laugh.

Let the countdown to 1,000 begin.

Reach Bordow at scott.bordow@arizonarepublic.com or 602-448-8716. Follow him on Twitter at Twitter.com/sBordow.

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